Sunday, December 7, 2008
Project Reflection
Victtor Lopez
Professor Hageman
English 3-Intro to Literature
December 7, 2008
Project Reflection Paper
Traditionally, learning comes from textbooks. This final project was an exercise which helped to prove otherwise as it challenged us to be creative in an unconventional, yet scholarly manner. Therefore, for our “departing flight” from English 3, we chose to use Flight Patterns by Sherman Alexie. This text had many attractions--funny, interesting, dealt with culture, stereotypes, and real-life situations. To show our creativeness and our understanding of the text, we chose to use a non-traditional learning source, Twitter.
Twitter is an online, micro-blogging website, that lets you pretend that you are the character. As the character, you post your thoughts and actions online. This medium allowed us to have fun with the characters, but most importantly, helped us delve into William, the character that we chose to focus on for our project. By allowing “William American” to share his daily experiences, we provided insight into the life and the challenges that he faces, further shaping him outside of the context of, but still in keeping with, “Flight Patterns”.
By providing excerpts at a time, we were able to tune into different channels of William’s character. With this media, we were channeling and further developing William through a 360-degree review of his life. While William is fictional he is what we created and painted through our understanding, experience and interpretation of “Flight Patterns”. As such, it was interesting to be in somebody else’s shoes for an instant at a time…even more interesting, was to read my group’s entries as they wore Williams shoes. We all offered different perspectives, most likely shaped by our own experiences and interpretation of the original text.
I was able to pretend to be paranoid about insomnia, have a need for trivia-type knowledge and I was able to appreciate that William is passionate about his wife. I realized that William is a family man; he thinks about his family even when he is away on his business trips. I had the chance to re-read how much he loves his wife, and how he enjoys making love to her. The group posts offered me different perspectives, allowing me to analyze and better understand the text more fully. This non-traditional way of learning gave me a better appreciation for literary interpretation…and a deeper appreciation for book clubs!
Professor Hageman
English 3-Intro to Literature
December 7, 2008
Project Reflection Paper
Traditionally, learning comes from textbooks. This final project was an exercise which helped to prove otherwise as it challenged us to be creative in an unconventional, yet scholarly manner. Therefore, for our “departing flight” from English 3, we chose to use Flight Patterns by Sherman Alexie. This text had many attractions--funny, interesting, dealt with culture, stereotypes, and real-life situations. To show our creativeness and our understanding of the text, we chose to use a non-traditional learning source, Twitter.
Twitter is an online, micro-blogging website, that lets you pretend that you are the character. As the character, you post your thoughts and actions online. This medium allowed us to have fun with the characters, but most importantly, helped us delve into William, the character that we chose to focus on for our project. By allowing “William American” to share his daily experiences, we provided insight into the life and the challenges that he faces, further shaping him outside of the context of, but still in keeping with, “Flight Patterns”.
By providing excerpts at a time, we were able to tune into different channels of William’s character. With this media, we were channeling and further developing William through a 360-degree review of his life. While William is fictional he is what we created and painted through our understanding, experience and interpretation of “Flight Patterns”. As such, it was interesting to be in somebody else’s shoes for an instant at a time…even more interesting, was to read my group’s entries as they wore Williams shoes. We all offered different perspectives, most likely shaped by our own experiences and interpretation of the original text.
I was able to pretend to be paranoid about insomnia, have a need for trivia-type knowledge and I was able to appreciate that William is passionate about his wife. I realized that William is a family man; he thinks about his family even when he is away on his business trips. I had the chance to re-read how much he loves his wife, and how he enjoys making love to her. The group posts offered me different perspectives, allowing me to analyze and better understand the text more fully. This non-traditional way of learning gave me a better appreciation for literary interpretation…and a deeper appreciation for book clubs!
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